Article: Host your own glögg party
Host your own glögg party
On a cold and dark December day, what better way to gather friends together than by hostibg your very own glögg party?
Across Scandinavia, a cosy afternoon of mulled wine and tasty treats is so popular there maybe several being held on any given weekend. Yet before your guests arrive, be sure to set the scene with lots of candles and simple decorations, dust off those old ABBA records and fill the table with a smörgåsbord of cheese, pickled herring, cripsbread and ginger biscuits.
Sweet, spicy, and sould warming, glögg is always served in a small cup or glass so you can wrao your hands around it and fully embrace the hyggelig feeling it provides.
But the smell of glögg is all around at this time of year, with the warming stuff drunk at any occasion. "A few weeks before Christmas, we'll trudge out through the snow (if it's arrived early) to a sustainable farm and ceremoniously chop down a tree while sipping steaming glögg," shares Niki Brantmark (@myscandinavianhome), an ex-Londonder who's made her home in Malmö.
Try our version of glögg, which combines port with red wine, flavoured with honey, cinnamon and orange (as featured in our Vol 8 Simply Scandi Winter issue).
Glögg with honey, cinnamon & orange
Makes 8 glasses
* 250ml port * 1 star anise * 1 small cinnamon stick * 1 tsp cardamon * 5 cloves * 1 piece of fresh ginger * 2 tbsps honey * 1 tbsp caster sugar * Juice and zest of 1 orange * ½ bottle of red wine
1 Bring the port, spices, honey, sugar, orange zest and juice to the boil in a large saucepan. Leave the flavours to infuse for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
2 Strain, then pour in the red wine. Heat through but don't allow to boil.
3 Serve the glögg with candided walnuts and yellow raisins.
